Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has spent much of his adult life railing against liberal elites.

In 2023 he wrote a book about it and it made him rich.

Hi everybody, I'm Brittany Lewis with Forbes breaking news.

Joining me now as my colleague Forbes reporter Kyle Mullins.

Kyle thanks for coming on.

Always happy to do it.

As you are well aware because you report on the intersection of money and politics,

Forbes is tracking down the net worth of all the political contenders in the 2024 race.

And you're looking into Florida Governor Ron

DeSantis but before we get into his net worth can you familiarize our viewers who is

Ron to santis absolutely so Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party or maybe that's what folks would have said like a year ago

because his campaign has been

his campaign for president I should say has been kind of you know flatlining

stagnating maybe declining over the past couple of months so you know there's he's in a

very active flux position right now in the Republican Party. He is the now in his second

term as the governor of Florida. Before that he was a Republican congressman.

He is a you know that when President Donald Trump endorsed him that is what set him up for his

political rise to be the governor of Florida he won his first term you know in 2018

when a blue wave was washing over the rest of the country

Democrats are winning everywhere else. Ron DeSantis squeaked out a win in Florida

as always close elections and that is his political profile.

He has cast himself as a, you know, a culture warrior, a member of the, you know, some say he's a member of the new right.

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